I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.